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I don't see any benefit in allowing the domain to stay up while the trial proceeds.

So you believe in guilty until proven guilty?

The content of 83990 sites was taken down, none of which had any disturbing or illegal content. There is great benefit in allowing this to stay up while the trail proceeds.



Quite, but none of them from mooo.com on down should have been included in the first place - the error appears to have taken place during the change to the DNS records, not inside a courtroom. As I said before, if that domain had erroneously been included on the warrant itself, there would have had to be another hearing held before that could be cleared up. There is no mention of such in the story; instead work began to restore the DNS records almost immediately (but propogation time means that's not an instant fix).

A technical error like that could have occurred just as easily following a trial as following a warrant. It was negligence which was to blame, not a lack of due process.




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